Estimation of the backscatter vertical profile of a pine forest using single baseline P-band (Pol-)InSAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3340-3348

  Garestier, Franck ^a   Le Toan, Thuy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b CESBIO   (France)

Author keywords

Forestry; Interferometry; Polarimetric SAR interferometry (Pol InSAR); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER PROFILES; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; DIFFERENT HEIGHTS; FOREST HEIGHT; FOREST STRUCTURE; GAUSSIANS; GROUND LEVEL; HIGH SENSITIVITY; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INSAR DATA; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; MAXIMUM POWER; PINE FOREST; POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY; POLINSAR; POWER RATIO; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SINGLE-BASELINE; TREE CROWNS; TREE DENSITY; VERTICAL PROFILE; VERTICAL SCATTERERS;

BACKSCATTERING; FORESTRY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TIMBER;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BACKSCATTER; BIOMASS; CANOPY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORESTRY; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HEIGHT; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VERTICAL PROFILE;

FORESTRY; FORESTS; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETRY; POLAROGRAPHY; RADAR; SATELLITES;

EID: 77956064224     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2046669     Document Type: Article

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